In the program Collecting Design next week, we are going to focus on French postwar design, one of the most charismatic areas in the marketplace. In the postwar years, the concept of design became linked with that of “modernity.” This is a story of a generation of designers and architects searching for ways to express the new economic prosperity of their time ant to move Modernism from the margins to the mainstream. They sought to make modern living accessible to ordinary French, and since most of them were socialists, they were looking to utilize the modernist vision to improve the lives of the millions living through the 40s and 50s.